Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better than the average crime film, Pretty Poison takes a sly, jaundiced look at swinging youth and the pervasive American climate of violence...
Tony Perkins gives his best film performance since Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), while Tuesday Weld again demonstrates that, with good material and good directing, she has an uncommon flair for roles of curdled innocence...
...Like the film itself, which was co-produced by the youthful duo of Marshal Backlar, 32, and Director Noel Black, 31, Tuesday's performance is a modest but pleasant surprise...
Ashes and Diamonds--Andrzej Wajda's fine film about life and death in postwar Poland. At the BRATTLE...
...Days at Peking--The Boxer Rebellion filmed in Spain with Dame Flora Robson as a wily Chinese, and Charlton Heston and the never-to-be-sufficiently studied Ava Gardner as doomed lovers. Nicholas Ray's last film is neither up to scratch nor all his (second-unit director Andrew Marton took over when Ray fell ill); but anything by the director of Rebel Wihtout a Cause, Party Girl, and Johnny Guitar is top-notch film-making by anyone's standards. At CARPENTER CENTER, Sunday...